Buckrabanyule, Victoria

Infobox Australian Place | type = town
name = Buckrabanyule
state = vic


caption =
lga = Shire of Buloke
postcode = 3525
est =
pop = 8 (est)
elevation=
maxtemp =
mintemp =
rainfall =
stategov = Swan Hill
fedgov = Murray, Mallee
dist1 = 237
dir1 = NW
location1= Melbourne
dist2 = 97
dir2 = NW
location2= Bendigo
dist3 = 18
dir3 = E
location3= Charlton

Buckrabanyule is a tiny township in the North-Central area of the state of Victoria in Australia. It is convert|237|km|mi|0|lk=on from Melbourne, Victoria's capital city.

The Post Office opened on 23 November 1875. It was renamed Hallam in 1884 when an office named Buckrabanyule R.S (for "Railway Station") was opened some distance away. This latter office became Buckrabanyule in 1902 and closed in 1992.Citation
last = Premier Postal History | title = Post Office List | url = https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&country= | accessdate = 2008-04-11 ]

Buckrabanyule is an Australian Aboriginal name meaning "last of the hills" or "last of the ranges" which is a rather appropriate description, since geographically, Mount Buckrabanyule (which lies just North of the township) is at the very end of the North-East extension of the Great Dividing Range. Standing atop Mt. Buckrabanyule and looking North, the landscape is very flat all the way to the horizon. Currently, the mountain is covered in a noxious weed, Wheel Cactus "Opuntia robusta". Its population is only 8, and only qualifies as a "township" because several farmhouses are within a few kilometre's radius. Buckrabanyule is effectively a ghost town, as many residents left probably due to a shift from railway to road transport and its remote location. The remains of a Community Hall, Fire Station, Post Office and grain silos beside the railway line are all that is left. A church used to operate but was destroyed in a windstorm.

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